Communication Studies
“Communication studies is an academic discipline that deals with processes human communication and behavior in interpersonal relationships, social interactions, and communication indifferent cultures. While also learning to observe and evaluate human communication in all situations. Communication is commonly defined as giving, receiving or exchanging ideas, information, signals or messages through appropriate media enabling individuals or groups to persuade, to seek information, to give information or to express emotions effectively.” The study and major of COM can specialize in digital and non-digital aspects. Social media and any digital media has been a common and effective form of the communication field and studies. Using quantitative and qualitative data allows this study to be versatile for all and any data collected or discovered.
Digital Humanities
Digital humanities is an interdisciplinary field that uses a variety of digital tools and computational methods to analyze, preserve, and share human culture. It uses digital resources in the humanities as well as analyzing applications. “DH makes new kinds of teaching possible, while at the same time studying and critiquing how these impact cultural heritage and digital culture”. Within this field the technology in the pursuit of humanities research and subjects technology to humanistic questioning and interrogation. DH studies an intersection of computing and traditional humanities disciplines like literature, history, and the arts. This field uses digital tools like data mining, visualization, mapping, and archival digitization for their analysis and datasets.